Speeding ticket

[palmettomoon]

When you work your shift at McDonald's, I bet you get a free meal too. Don't hate the playa...playa.

No self respecting franchise owner would ever hire FatAlbert to work in their store. Have you seen how big that boy is? He'd eat all the profits.

 

[Barbwire]

jaf1 do you intend to show us your ticket? If not why not?

 

[StuP]

Might be the same one that wanted to chastise me for using my horn in a work zone where he was standing in.

The van in front of me slammed on his brakes and abruptly turned right. He was yelling there was no reason to blow the horn and I politely told him to do his job since there were no brake or turn signals.

The horn is there to warn people before something happens, not whine about it afterwards.

 

[eightnsand]

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[Fatal_Bert]

The cop won't be there on your first court date. If you plea not guilty, the cop will be there on your 2nd court date. You may be able to plea nolo and escape the points and pay the fine. I'm not an attorney. Just playing one on ODT

Yeah the cop doesn't have to be at the arraignment, but something like this the judge is not gonna want to take to court. So if you plead not guilty he'll likely try to get you to wave your rights to trial and let him hear your case right then and there. With no cop to witness against you the advantage is all yours. Usually the judge will do something in your favor because taking a speeding case to court is a big waste of time, but you have the right to demand a jury trial. That's leverage we should all use to combat these tickets for victimless crime. If we all went to court we'd floor the system and they would have to quit writing citations for petty ****.

 

[maidenfan]

Took the day off to go to court thinking the Officer would not show. Was I wrong, he was there. He did his job, I was speeding, doesn’t really matter what excuse you have. Judge listened to the facts. Case closed, guilty as charged. You can spend more money dealing with this than the ticket.

 

[palmettomoon]

Took the day off to go to court thinking the Officer would not show. Was I wrong, he was there. He did his job, I was speeding, doesn’t really matter what excuse you have. Judge listened to the facts. Case closed, guilty as charged. You can spend more money dealing with this than the ticket.

They count on that.

 

[GeauxLSU]

Everybody's a victim.

 

[cooter69]

Got a speeding through construction zone ticket by Acworth revenue generators. On Saturday with no work going on. Been driving through there for twenty years and know they set there, but had gone to get my wife's prescriptions and some some stuff for me as I was extremely ill and was having a coughing attack and didn't slow in time. Made no difference to him, just more money. Do I suck it up and pay it or what.

id go to court with it and plead your case. How can the fine you for speeding in a construction zone with no workers in place. Done it and won. Ask about calibration of his equipment also.
Cooter69

 

[Ken Ford]

Yeah the cop doesn't have to be at the arraignment, but something like this the judge is not gonna want to take to court. So if you plead not guilty he'll likely try to get you to wave your rights to trial and let him hear your case right then and there. With no cop to witness against you the advantage is all yours. Usually the judge will do something in your favor because taking a speeding case to court is a big waste of time, but you have the right to demand a jury trial. That's leverage we should all use to combat these tickets for victimless crime. If we all went to court we'd floor the system and they would have to quit writing citations for petty ****.

I have to agree except for the Jury part.
One, the judge will already have an issue with him cause it’s costs more and takes up a lot of time.
Two, if juries were impaneled every time the people making the juries would soon just get pissed that they had to miss a day at work...
Three, court costs include everyone involved including the jury....

I have had a few tickets n my driving career. The ones I did’t think I deserved I went to court and beat those. Ones I deserved, I went and asked the judge to reduce the fines and points. In all but one case that worked quite well. That judge did not give me a break, but the officer had already kept it off my CDL. So I still got that break.